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Other Voices: Get out to vote
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 22, 2024
Have you noticed that when a president and vice president have our country so screwed up, then run for reelection and they say they will fix everythin...
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Shapiro offers simple song of freedom at DNC
Opinion, Сolumns
JONATHAN D. SALANT Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Aug 22, 2024
CHICAGO (TNS) — On the same night he would have accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination, Gov. Josh Shapiro called the Democrats “the part...
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DNC protected by walls, cops and IDs
Opinion, Сolumns
VICTOR JOECKS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Aug 22, 2024
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (TNS) — When Democrats want to be safe, they implement Republican policies. Just look at the Democratic National Convention this week ...
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Lovefest for an ousted Biden
Opinion, Сolumns
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS Las Vegas Review-Journal 
Aug 22, 2024
CHICAGO (TNS) — It must have been a rough plane ride for President Joe Biden and his family, who left the White House for Chicago so he could address ...
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Pa. must do more to allow care at home
Opinion, Сolumns
SEN. TRACY PENNYCUICK 
Aug 21, 2024
Aging in place is so important to many older Pennsylvanians and their families. The same can be said for parents who wish to care for their physically...
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Will voters care about Harris’ border flip-flop?
Opinion, Сolumns
LYNN SCHMIDT St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
Aug 21, 2024
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Anyone who has gone fishing, caught one, and had it wiggle out of their hands, knows that while a fish is flopping around searc...
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Stop taxing tips? Bad idea
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 21, 2024
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris agree: No tax on tips! Does this rare concurrence between the two political adversaries mean they have landed on a smar...
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Ban cell phones in schools
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 20, 2024
This year’s hottest back-to-school trend is one most students won’t like: cellphone bans. A growing number of districts across the country have enacte...
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As inflation cools, cut rates
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 20, 2024
Last month, for the first time since March 2021, the consumer price index — the indicator of inflation — fell below 3% annual increase , hitting 2.9% ...
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COVID’s summer wave
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 19, 2024
When we talk about catching waves over the summer, this is not the kind of wave we mean. Because as summer winds down, it’s not ocean waves many of us...
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Harris giddy for price controls
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 19, 2024
Democrats open their national convention Monday in Chicago, the largest city in Illinois, a state that perfectly encapsulates the dangers of their pro...
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Independents will decide ’24
Opinion, Сolumns
TYLER FISHER and CARLO MACOMBER The Fulcrum/TNS 
Aug 19, 2024
Whichever party wins independent voters will win the presidency and other key races this fall. A poll we at Unite America commissioned earlier this ye...
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Intel pockets $8.5 billion grant
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 19, 2024
President Joe Biden’s goal of creating jobs in semiconductor manufacturing is not going as planned.{/div}Technology giant Intel announced that it will...
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A First Amendment lesson
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 16, 2024
While Kamala Harris hides from unscripted events, Donald Trump can’t stop talking off the cuff. On Monday, the former president gave an interview to E...
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Oldest Olympians might hold key to slowing aging
Opinion, Сolumns
F.D. FLAM Bloomberg Opinion 
Aug 16, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying p...
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The Brotherhood of ’57
Opinion, Сolumns
RICHARD J. MARCOTT Special to The Era 
Aug 16, 2024
It took me till the end of our first long cruise in the summer of 1953 to realize what was happening. That brotherhood thing — the unbreakable bond th...
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Trump’s state of mind should be under debate
Opinion, Сolumns
JACKIE CALMES Los Angeles Times 
Aug 15, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s way past time to talk seriously about Trump Derangement Syndrome — his, not his critics’. For years it’s been clear to mental ...
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Shapiro lost the veepstakes
Opinion, Сolumns
NATHAN BENEFIELD RealClearPennsylvania 
Aug 15, 2024
Earlier this month, all signs pointed to Gov. Josh Shapiro joining Vice President Kamala Harris on the Democratic presidential ticket. After all, Shap...
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